The Western Double

When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight.

After his mother died he took a job as a clerk working for Chandler, the trader at Fort Bostwick. But during a visit from the district marshal he learns of Chandler's crooked w...